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Assault Plus

Arcade Video game published 36 years ago by NAMCO, Ltd.

Listed in MAME

Assault Plus screenshot

Assault Plus © 1988 Namco.

This game is an upgrade of "Assault". Assault Plus contains:
* Cocktail mode.
* Different colors.
* Intermission screen.
* Intro has new music.
* Minor enemy changes (strength, colors).
* Two player mode.
* Two skill levels of play.
* Zero points bonus is gone.

Your mission is to reclaim your homeland by destroying the enemy forces that have taken over. You have an Assault tank, the supreme mobile weapon. Your tank has artillery guns and grenades, can perform Rapid Rolls to dodge enemy shots, and uses Power Wheelies to launch grenades.

TECHNICAL

Namco System 2 hardware
Game ID : AT

Main CPU : (2x) Motorola 68000 (@ 12.288 Mhz), M6809 (@ 3.072 Mhz), HD63705 (@ 2.048 Mhz)
Sound Chips: C140 (@ 21.39 Khz), YM2151 (@ 3.57958 Mhz)

Screen orientation: Vertical
Video resolution: 224 x 288 pixels
Screen refresh: 60.61 Hz
Palette colors: 8192

Players: 2
Control: Double 8-way joysticks
Buttons: 1

TRIVIA

This upgrade was only released in Japan.

STAFF

Game designer : Kunio Ogawara
Music composed by : Shinji Hosoe, Kazuo Noguchi

PORTS

CONSOLES:
usa europe australia Sony PlayStation japan "Namco Museum Volume 4" : Hidden game. See "Assault" entry for release dates in each region.

SOURCES

Game's ROM.